] "Late last week, two soldiers of the U.S. Army's 9th] Psychological Operations Battalion began doing just that] in Salang, a tiny northern village surrounded by towering] mountain crags.] ] The Americans lifted a 21-inch TV from the back of a] green camouflage Army Humvee and showed a five-minute] propaganda video in the Dari language to 100 villagers.] Nearby sat two destroyed Soviet-era tanks - rusted relics] from the decades of war that have wasted the country."